Category: General
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The dream begins now
The first time I explain that to enable collaboration, we need to create the conditions of this collaboration between people, people approved… But I feel like it’s not really understood. The idea that a meeting needs to be facilitated to help participants to achieve their goals is seen as animation… Like if it was only…
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We trust you
During Red Hat Summit in Boston this week, a documentary video was showed during the keynote sessions. This video describes the way Penn Manor school district used open source in their education project. Charlie Reisinger is the IT director that lead this openness strategy, also delivered a TEDxTalk in Lancaster to tell the story. I…
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Liberté et Cie par le club de lecture
Une nouvelle session de notre nouveau club de lecture à Bordeaux se déroulait ce samedi 20 juin 2015. Cette fois ci, un peu moins de participants que prévu (était-ce du à un ciel trop bleu ?) Claire, Isabel, Fabrice et Patrick se joignait à moi pour échanger autour du livre Liberté & Cie. Le contraste…
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Agile France et Le Bonheur au Travail
J’ai eu le plaisir de donner une conférence sur le bonheur lors de l’édition 2015 de la conférence Agile France à Paris. Il s’agissait d’une version raccourcie et en français de la keynote que j’avais donné en ouverture lors des Drupal Developers Days : Happiness is Coming. J’avais choisi de couper beaucoup de contenu pour…
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Happiness level during your last quarter
Two weeks ago, I facilitate a quarterly meeting of a distributed team. They met in person only once a quarter during this meeting. I chose to start the meeting with an exercise to share their feeling about the last quarter. I asked: Can you draw a line representing your happiness level during this period? The…
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Self-driving cars and basic income
In 10 to 15 years, self-driving cars will be a reality in our world. It means that, people transportation and goods transportation will be done by those self-driving cars and trucks. The positive consequences are numerous and will be highlighted by manufacturers and service providers, like the possibility to order your vehicle from your phone…
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Don’t change my mindset, I am not that open
Nick Barcet and I were schedule for the last talk session of the Openstack Summit in Vancouver (Of course, design sessions will continue on Friday). When we submitted the proposal for this session we were looking for a way to help our co-contributors to the openstack project. The way we think it can be the…
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Bridges and Hierarchy
Mark McLoughlin delivered the Red Hat Keynote, on the morning of the second day of the Openstack Summit in Vancouver. During the afternoon, he delivered a more intimate talk about the governance of the Openstack project. The main idea is that, the new Big Tent organization model will allow the emergence of new projects, and…
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Happiness is Coming
I had the great pleasure to deliver the opening keynote of April 17, 2015 of the Drupal Developer Days in Montpellier. The selected theme was Happiness… Here are the slides: And a selection of tweets: In 5 minutes, @alexismonville already make an entire room smile and laugh at #drupaldevdays ! Happiness is at rendez-vous !…
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The DevOps Opportunity
In the beginning was the session of John Allspaw and Paul Hammond during the 2009 Velocity Conference, showing how cooperation between Dev and Ops at Flickr allows 10 deployments a day (Header image of this post is extract from this presentation, and it shows how Leonard Nimoy was important for us even if I started…
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Club de Lecture
Une session du Club de Lecture de Bordeaux s’est déroulée ce samedi 28 mars 2015, de 10h30 à 12h00. L’idée de proposer cette session m’était venu suite à la participation au club de Toulouse que j’ai raconté ici. 1er RDV du Club de lecture #Bordeaux initié par @alexismonville avec le livre #management #workout de @jurgenappelo…
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World Happiness Day
March 20th, it is World Happiness Day. I am writing this short post listening to Happiness Sounds Like playlist. What recommandation for this day? Maybe follow some of the suggestions of The Year of Happy and learn things about happiness that can surprise you? Or maybe follow on your pace the UC Berkeley course about…